#at

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#culture #literature #culture

Vincent to Kate: “The day I stop seeing you as one of the strongest people I know is the day I wake up human. ↗

— Amy Plum

#until-i-die #vincent #kate

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#coffee #history #coffee

Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. ʺI need a coffee shop or something.ʺ ʺI think I saw one in a cave down the road,ʺ I said. That almost got a smile from her ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sydney #coffee

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. ↗

— Stephen King

#king #on-writing #stephen-king #information

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#comedy #dark #euphemism #label #manipulation

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#meaning #mystery #philosophy #purpose #uncertainty

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#knowledge #supernatural #supernatural

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#evil #horror #supernatural #supernatural

‎'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan. ↗

— Jana Oliver

#orangutans #supernatural #supernatural